Loyle Carner: ‘Being a millennial is difficult – we have more of a political voice now’

'We're more left-thinking, it's more positive and we look after each other'

Loyle Carner has said that his album ‘Yesterday’s Gone’ represents the problems facing millennials in 2017 – and the unity they show in the face of adversity. Watch out video interview with Carner above.

“I’m representing. I’m a millennial I guess, or just before,” Carner told NME. “We’re in a good place. People have more to talk about – we have more of a political voice, we have more of a left-thinking voice, it’s more positive, we look after each other. Really I’m just trying to say that being 21 is difficult.”

Loyle Carner

Asked if he thinks the current state of political unrest and division might inspire more young people to turn to music, Carner replied: “I hope so, maybe just creative arts in general. If you’re trying to crush something into nothing, then that’s where flowers grow out of concrete. Hopefully that’s what will happen.

“The more people push us one way, we’re going to go the other way to create. That’s the only reason I create and I hope that’s the only reason that other people create – other than to make money…and take my mum on holiday.”